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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)

Judge: DHS playing politics with funds

Garrett Owen

A federal judge called recent funding cuts to Democratic states "arbitrary" and unconstitutional

Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan performs onstage during a concert at Vicar Street on November 26, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Kieran Frost/Getty Images)

Police drop investigation into Bob Vylan

Alex Galbraith

UK authorities launched a probe into the act after they led an anti-IDF chant at Glastonbury earlier this year

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

Epstein may have had 10 "conspirators"

Garrett Owen

It is not clear what became of the investigation into some of the co-conspirators

President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump says "Humbug" to late-night hosts

Alex Galbraith

The president threatened broadcast licenses in an early Christmas Eve post

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Megyn Kelly speaks during a TPUSA "American Comeback Tour" stop on Sept. 24, 2025. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

It's Megyn Kelly vs. everybody

Sophia Tesfaye

Kelly may be the biggest loser in the Erika Kirk-Candace Owens feud

Christmas lights in Veterans Memorial Park, Port St. Lucie, Florida (Getty Images)

Christmas can't escape our war fetish

Daniel Secatore

The Trump administration's deadly boat strikes are set against an increasingly militarized version of Christmas

Reginald Owen stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 motion picture "A Christmas Carol" (John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The timeless gift of Scrooge

Coleman Spilde

From the Muppets to "A Diva's Christmas Carol," the holiday spirit grants us the ability to hope for a better world

Josh Stein gives a speech during his campaign for governor in Raleigh on November 4, 2024. (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NCGOP plot to seize power from Democrats

Doug Bock Clark - ProPublica

GOP lawmakers have passed law after law stripping powers from Democratic governors

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LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 23: Activist Greta Thunberg is arrested and sits in the back of a police van outside the offices of Aspen Insurance on December 23, 2025 in London, England. The activists targeted the company due to its alleged business relationship with the Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems. They are also protesting in support of six of the so-called "Filton 24" prisoners who were arrested in 2024 and have been refusing food for over 50 days while being held on remand ahead of a trial. (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

Thunberg arrested at Palestine protest

Garrett Owen

The arrest is in keeping with the UK's ban on the group

Bari Weiss (Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press)

Canned "60 Minutes" story airs in Canada

Garrett Owen

Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss claimed the story "wasn't ready" but it found its way online anyway

Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend, Melania Knauss, alongside future convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago on February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images))

New trove of Epstein docs name Trump

Garrett Owen

The recent release of Epstein files are peppered with mentions of the president

"Another Beatles Christmas Show" at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 23rd December 1964. (Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

The inside joke of Beatles Xmas singles

Caryn Rose

Released annually from 1963 to 1969, these collectible albums now feel like a holiday time capsule

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Homemade Christmas gifts (MarKord /Getty Images)

Homemade holiday food gifts, done well

Ashlie D. Stevens

Simple, delicious and stress-free ways to make treats for everyone on your list

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA is showing cracks over religion

Heather Digby Parton

As Trump and Vance attack immigrants and proclaim religious liberty, some Christian denominations are uncomfortable

Vice President JD Vance speaks at Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest conference  on Dec. 21, 2025. ( Caylo Seals/Getty Images)

JD’s 2028 strategy: Be worse than Trump

Amanda Marcotte

Vance sees a future in people who call Hitler "a great leader"

Social and political issue of healthcare and medicine changes and reform in USA politics and policies, symbolized by a close-up of a stethoscope resting on a the cloth fabric of the United States flag.

Reinventing public health under Trump

Nicole Karlis

California, New York and others are forming health alliances, marking an uncharted chapter in public health

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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche attends a news conference on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

Blanche broke law with crypto holdings

Corey G. Johnson, Al Shaw - ProPublica

Top DOJ official violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts say

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 16: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks at a press conference with other Senate Democrats on the upcoming deadline for the release of the Epstein files, in Washington, DC on December 16, 2025. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Schumer aims to sue over Epstein files

Garrett Owen

The initial release of the long-sought files was widely panned, including by Epstein's victims

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 4: FBI Director Kash Patel conducts a news conference at the Department of Justice on Thursday, December 4, 2025, announcing the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee offices on January 6, 2021. Also appearing are, from left, ATF Special Agent in Charge Anthony Spotswood, Darren B. Cox, deputy assistant director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division, and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Kash Patel's new wheels: armored BMWs

Garrett Owen

Patel's use of resources and his professional conduct have come under intense scrutiny

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the event, it was announced that Hyundai will invest $20 billion in U.S. manufacturing, including a $5 billion investment in a Louisiana steel factory that will produce 1,500 jobs. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

New Trump envoy aims to annex Greenland

Garrett Owen

The development is the latest in Trump's history of annexation attempts

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Bari Weiss speaks onstage in New York on Nov. 19, 2024. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press)

Bari Weiss' story spike shows her hand

Sophia Tesfaye

Weiss' catch-and-kill puts her editorial incompetence at CBS News on public view

The Free Press' Honestly with Bari Weiss (pictured) hosts Senator Ted Cruz presented by Uber and X on January 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

CBS yanks El Salvador prison story

Garrett Owen

One correspondent said the decision was "political"

Gwyneth Paltrow in "Marty Supreme" (A24)

Gwyneth Paltrow, 2025's patron saint...?

Coleman Spilde

Paltrow laughed off biographers and adulterers before turning in one of her best roles. We can learn a thing or two

President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One on Dec. 17, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's excuse in 2025: "I don't know"

Amanda Marcotte

From Epstein to MRIs, the president fakes ignorance

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